« Reply #1889 on: January 10, 2024, 01:47:50 pm »
Then it is indeed Can Can Red
This is the BEST description about the old (1972! ), fairly terrible, vague, (but nostalgic) "915" transmission in my 86. Be sure to look at the map while reading the description. Funny. And bless the half dozen of the forum members here who ground the gears in my tranny (shifting too fast a la modern tranny) during their test drive.
"Shifting the 911? Let's look at the map. First gear is in Beverly Hills. Nice place. Second is in Rolling Hills Estates. It's a nice place, too, but it's going to take a while to get there just be patient. Third is all the way the hell back up in Hollywood. Fourth fourth is in San Pedro, but if you're not careful, you're going to wind up back in Rolling Hills Estates and you're gonna have a problem. Now for fifth. Fifth is in Upland. It's a hell of a long way to go. Much like Upland, the first time you go there, you start to wonder if you've gone too far, only to wind up there after you thought you couldn't possibly go any farther east. A little blip of the throttle ensures you drop it into gear without a second thought." Kurt Niebuhr
https://maps.app.goo.gl/AWLr2SeCseZrKuYo9
The '85 Carrera CS I drove last summer didn't need nearly the same sort of slow, deliberate pauses between cogs that your '86 Targa did.
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